3D Projects
Lasercut: 3D Mandala No. 6

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It has to be said that the coronavirus isolation rules haven’t affected my working life unduly. I’ve always worked from home being lucky enough to have my studio at the bottom of the garden. Unfortunately, it has meant that I’m no longer able to host studio guests which has led to some quiet evenings. At some point, I’ll look into providing remote access via IT solutions, but there’s no one to watch at the moment.I’ve restocked some of my laser-cut mini- tags in the hope that we get to have a Christmas stall again this year. Yesterday, I drew a mandala and then transferred it to Illustrator to convert it to a 3D layered laser-cut version:

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Art Journal
Review: Digital Art Journaling

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Well, it’s a strange world at the moment. I’m not in self-isolation, but I, like many other self-employed freelance workers, am finding things a wee bit quiet at the moment. So, I’ve been flicking through some art journaling magazines and came across a course I thought looked great. It’s ‘Digital Art Journaling’ from Jessica Sprague and despite it being published a couple of years ago, is still available. Here is a flick through of the finished journal and after, a quick review which I hope you find useful.

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Card Craft
Challenge: Colour Palette

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Over at Less is More this week, the challenge is a colour one: to use red, raspberry and grey. The colours are complementary but clearly restricted! I unearthed an old Creative Expressions stamp of a daisy, which I thought could double up as an echinacea cone-flower which suits the colour scheme. I chose Warm Grey 3 ProMarker, along with Hot Pink and Carmine to match the screen colours set by LIM. I used the red to shade the inner part of the petals which doesn’t show up overly well in the pic…

Altered Art
Commission: Mixed Media painting

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So you know that I’ll be redecorating my lounge and that I have already completed this artwork for one of the walls. It was inevitable that I would be commissioned to do a second piece for another wall in the room, so here’s what I created…

Though I tried for a random background, swiping the paint on with a palette knife, it ended up almost as a mirror image along the horizon line. I think it resembles a cityscape, complete with a Ferris wheel!

 

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3D Projects
Altered Art commission: Love Cherish Care

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We’re about to redecorate our lounge in shades of grey-blue, so I was commissioned to create another altered art canvas similar to this one, but with a matching blue as the main colour. It’s taken a day to do and has laser-cut, 3D printed, buttons, wood and polyurethane-cast elements as well as a few embellishments from my collection.

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Textile & Fibre Art
Felted Crochet Bowl

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Whilst teaching my improver’s crochet class over at Quorn Country Crafts last week, I was asked to look into making felted wool bowls. So, this week, I got hold of the wool, dusted off my 9mm crochet hook and got to working double crochets in ever-increasing circles. A quick hot wash in the washing machine with a couple of towels and the process was complete. I need to make a wider diameter bowl to start with, but I didn’t have enough wool on this occasion to go much bigger. I hope to have a class making them in the autumn programme.

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